The Derby Evening Telegraph has become the Derby Telegraph as it and two other newspapers in the east Midlands move to full overnight printing and drop their final city editions.

Two other Northcliffe Media titles, the Leicester Mercury and the Stoke Sentinel, have each dropped from four to three editions a day, while the Telegraph in Derby has moved from two editions to a single overnight edition.

The Stoke Sentinel's three editions will cover Cheshire, Staffordshire Moorlands and a main edition, while the Leicester Mercury will publish a city edition and later two county editions.

In Derby the Telegraph introduced partial overnight printing more than three years ago. Now it has dropped "Evening" from its masthead as its entire print run moves overnight and the late morning edition is dropped.

Northcliffe's new production centre, based in Nottingham, will be responsible for producing the Leicester Mercury, Derby Telegraph and Nottingham Evening Post.

The changes at the Derby Telegraph have been introduced to coincide with the move of its news and features production operation to Nottingham at the start of this week.

"A continuation of the previous publishing pattern [for the Derby Telegraph] was uneconomic," said Northcliffe Media, a subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust.

"The change does not prevent us from continuing to provide a daily mix of exclusive news, analysis, quality writing, provocative comment, campaigns, comprehensive community content and the best local sports service around.

"Breaking news will be covered on our free-to-access website, thisisderbyshire.co.uk. With overnight publishing already embraced by half our readership, we hope that our final edition customers will do the same but we will of course be monitoring the situation for any adverse reaction."

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